Before the Thundering Hordes: Historia Antigua de Parras

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Authors: Peláez, Agustin Churruca; Barraza, Héctor; Gutiérrez, Jesús; Borja, Patricio; and Sakanassi, Manuel

Editors: Willeford, Glenn P. and Kelley, Ellen A.

Translator: Kinsall, Al

Publisher: Center for Big Bend Studies, Sul Ross State University

Pub Date: 2000

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  no marks, tears, bends or folds.  Spine and front spine edge slightly sun-faded.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Paper No. 4.  Originally published in Spanish in 1989, as Historia Antigua de Parras (Los Talleres de “El Popular”, Parras, Coahuila) this is the first English translation.  Parras de la Fuente is a city in the lower portion of Coahuila, 400+ years old.   In the 1980s, Father Agustin Churruca began assembling information on the history of Parras, particularly the early history of Parras and southwestern Coahuila in the Spanish colonial period.  Emphasis on the Jesuit contributions, information on Indian populations, and an examination of the Spanish policy of latifundio–the granting of large estates–which led to control of large areas of land and water, and subjected the natives to slavery.